A KENDAL couple joined the 10,000-strong People's Procession to mark the Armistice centenary in London.

Helen and John Whittaker laid a poppy wreath in memory of Helen's grandfather, John Walter Brandon, as they marched past the Cenotaph on Sunday.

Private Brandon was killed fighting on the Italian Front on October 24, 1918 and is buried at Tezze Commonwealth War Cemetery. He signed up in 1915 but, being 35 years old, was not called up until 1917.

He joined his regiment, the 2nd Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company, at Ypres; fought at Passchendaele and went as part of the 7th Division to fight on the Italian Front.

Three generations of his family travelled to Italy for the country's Armistice commemorations on November 3 - the Whittakers, their daughter and son-in-law Sarah and Steve Coleman, their granddaughter Anna, and Helen's brother Andy Hinchcliffe. After the ceremony at Tezze, they met Prince Michael of Kent.